Hanjin Shipping has become the first Korean carrier to place an order of five 10,000TEU containerships. At Hotel Shilla in Seoul at 5 pm on August 24, 2006, Hanjin Shipping President & CEO Jung-won Park and Samsung Heavy Industries CEO Jing-wan Kim signed the contract for building five 10,000 TEU vessels. The five vessels ordered are scheduled for successive deployment from February of 2010 on Hanjin's trans-Pacific trade and expected to provide better customer service and rationalize the company's fleet operation.
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Chineese Port of Tianjin port will see its cargo handling capacity soar by 1.7 million TEU in early 2007 when a new terminal, the Tianjin Port Alliance International Container Terminal, is expected to start operations.
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China
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CMA CGM announced the reshuffling and upgrading of its Pacific East Coast Express 2 Service (PEX2), linking the Far East with Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean : From August 29th, CMA CGM will run its own PEX 2 weekly service independently, with 8 vessels of 3000/3500 TEU capacity.
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Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK; Head office: Tokyo; President: Koji Miyahara) and TCM Corporation (TCM; Head office: Osaka; President: Atsushige Ishiki) have agreed to conduct a test experiment for the practical use of a hybrid transfer crane* that has been jointly developed by the two companies.
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Japan
NYK
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
Tokyo
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The Port of Felixstowe has welcomed the arrival of nine rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC) of Shanghai. The cranes have been transported – fully erected – by sea from China, a journey that has taken nine weeks. Following full commissioning tests, it is anticipated that the cranes will be fully operational within a short time.
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Port of Felixstowe
United Kingdom
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Doug J. Marchand, Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), the Grand Alliance, comprised of OOCL, NYK Hapag-Lloyd, and the New World Alliance, comprised of APL, MOL and Hyundai Merchant Marine announced the addition of the Asia-East Coast service (also known as the EC3 service), a new express, all-water service between Asia and Savannah via the Panama Canal.
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China
Georgia
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Port of Savannah
USA
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Quintana Maritime Limited (NASDAQ: QMAR) announced that it took delivery of its second Kamsarmax bulk carrier, Iron Fuzeyya, from Metrobulk. Iron Fuzeyya has a carrying capacity of 82,209 deadweight tons (dwt) and was built in January 2006 at Tsuneishi, a Japanese shipyard.
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APL has announced the launch of a new North Europe feeder service, the Lower Baltic Express (LBX). Commencing from Hamburg on June 5, APL will deploy the 400 TEU Euro Storm on a fixed-day, weekly frequency between Hamburg, Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Gdynia (Poland).
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Lithuania
Netherlands
Poland
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On Saturday 12 August 2006 Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Mrs Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, accompanied by her husband, Mr Peder Uggla, honoured A.P. Moller - Maersk and the Yard by naming the newbuilding EMMA MÆRSK. The namegiving ceremony was attended by the Company’s and the Yard’s Boards of Directors as well as Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller.
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) reports that the MOL-owned crude oil tanker, Bright Artemis, was suffered the damage on her hull when she is trying to rescue the crew of a vessel "Amar". The incident led to crude oil spillage from Bright Artemis in between Sri Lanka and Sumatra Island on Monday, August 14. The outline of events is as follows:
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Patrick Stevedores has been chosen as the terminal operator in Australia for the new US Lines (USL) operation which gets under way later this month. Announcing the appointment today, USL’s Australasian Vice President Noel Coom says the line had every confidence in the Patrick operation.
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port
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Companies create new service category combining premium ocean carriage with high-performance LTL transportation for fast, guaranteed port-to-door delivery from China to the U.S.
APL Logistics, the global supply chain management leader, and Con-way Freight (NYSE: CNW), which operates the most extensive regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation network in the United States, today announced the launch of "OceanGuaranteedSM," a new service providing secure, rapid delivery of less-than-container load (LCL) shipments from China to the U.S.
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China
Con-way
Conway
USA
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On 14 August 2006, YICT welcomed a new European (AE3E) service operated by Maersk. The shipping line has deployed seven 5,000-TEU container vessels to the line-haul route, which includes a port rotation of Nanshan, Tanjung Pelepas, Suez Canal, Port Said, Damietta, Gioia Tauro, Port Said, Suez Canal, Singapore, Yantian, Nagoya, Yokohama and Shimizu. This new service calling at YICT is a direct response to an increase in demand for European routes during the peak shipping season.
Source: Press Release
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Europe
Japan
Maers
Singapore
istanbul
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Recently China Shipping held a meeting to stengthen the work for the fight against typhoon.
President Li Shaode said that vessel companies of China Shipping must learn from the lessons of "Yong An No.4 Vessel" whose mainframe was broken down during No.6 typhoon. He instructed safety management division of vessel companies to take preventive measures in advance to ensure the security of voyages.
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China
China Shipping
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The Alaskan Legend to be Delivered to BP on August 18
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today held a ceremony to name the fourth and final double-hulled oil tanker it is building for BP Shipping Ltd., the Alaskan Legend. BP Shipping Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary and ship operating division of BP p.l.c. (ADR: BP).
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USA
new ship
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